Georg Rasch, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Georg Rasch

Danish mathematician

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1901

Date of Death: 19-Oct-1980

Profession: mathematician, statistician

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Georg Rasch (21 September 1901 – 19 October 1980) was a Danish mathematician, statistician, and psychometrician, most famous for the development of a class of measurement models known as Rasch models.
He studied with R.A.
Fisher and also briefly with Ragnar Frisch, and was elected a member of the International Statistical Institute in 1948. In 1919, Rasch began studying mathematics at the University of Copenhagen.
He completed a master's degree in 1925 and received a doctorate in science with thesis director Niels Erik Nørlund in 1930.
Rasch married in 1928.
Unable to find work as a mathematician in the 1930s, he turned to work as a statistical consultant.
In this capacity he worked on a range of problems, including problems of biological growth.